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"(Anderson) rode so hard today," Fahlin said. "It's so cool having someone like her on the team.
"We ran a perfect race. We couldn't have done it without the team."
The men's Elite I race came down to three individual efforts.
Astana's Chris Horner, Bissell's Ben Jacques-Maynes and Colavita Suter Home's Alejandro Borrajo broke away from the pack with 37 laps remaining in the 40-mile main event.
The rest of the field didn't see the trio again until Horner pushed hard to catch the main group from behind with a couple laps to go.
"I wanted to lap the field because I like the chaos and thought I could recover from it to win the race," Horner said.
Horner got his wish in regards to the chaos.
Jacques-Maynes was taken out in a crash on the final lap.
Horner survived the mass of riders, but Borrajo fought through it the most effectively to win.
Saturday's two winners will wear the leaders' jerseys at the start of the of this weekend's Fresno Cycling Classic. The FCC is the second leg of the inaugural 99 Series.
Sunday's Foothills Road Race concluded another successful weekend of racing in Merced, but overall attendance was down considerably from a year ago.
Still, event director Flip Hassett believes the race has a bright future.
"We may have lost some people because it was cold early on Saturday, but it was still great," Hassett said. "We had so many positive comments about our community and all the agricultural lands around us.
"I think as we do a better job of selling it, we'll be able to expand the event to more and more groups in the community."
The New Hampshire Country Music Association is now accepting applications for the 21st annual talent search to be held on Sept. 7,14, and 21.
If you write, record or perform country music this is your chance to start on your way to be coming the super star you always wanted to be.
Application may be obtained online at www. NHCMA.com or by calling the NHCMA business office at 603-734-2900.
Deadline for entry is Aug. 17.
U.S. Navy Sends Ships Out To Sea Ahead Of Hurricane Florence Nearly 30 naval ships were ordered to leave the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia on Monday in order to escape the storm.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze departs Naval Station Norfolk ahead of Hurricane Florence, in Norfolk, Va., on Monday.
Evacuation orders from South Carolina to Virginia have driven more than a million people inland seeking to escape Hurricane Florence that is expected to make landfall Thursday.
The U.S. Navy is seeking safety in the opposite direction, out to sea.
Nearly 30 naval vessels left the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia Monday in order to escape the ravages of the storm. Florence is expected to reach land somewhere in the Carolinas on Thursday, bringing with it heavy rain, powerful storm surges and high winds.
The Navy ordered all ships to leave, also known as a sortie order, Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek and Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world, to ride out the storm in the open water. The idea is to avoid the storm altogether by heading out to sea away from the hurricane rather than have large...
Meier is leading 25 ships off the coast of Florida aboard the USS George H.W. Bush.
"A sortie order is just that it's a precautionary order to set our ships to sea where we have much more ability to maneuver and avoid the storm," he tells Here & Now's Robin Young. "And if you leave ships in port, there is always the hazard that a ship can be damaged, broken loose from its mooring lines or that our pie...
U.S. Fleet Forces Commander Adm. Christopher Grady ordered all ships in the region to Sortie Condition Alpha, which means they must quickly get moving. "Our ships can better weather storms of this magnitude when they are underway," Grady said in a statement.
Back at base, the few ships left behind for repairs are being outfitted with extra mooring, have dropped anchor and disconnected power lines, according to the Navy. The Coast Guard also sticks around to prepare the area for the storm and be ready to launch rescue and cleanup efforts in the storm's aftermath, Meier says...
"My residence has been sandbagged. The issue with dumpsters and other things is when you have high winds like that is you really try your best to prevent missile hazards," he says. "Anything that could get blown around or to prevent water intrusion into buildings all, that's being done on the bases and on our facilitie...
But when members of the Navy leave on a mission like this, their family members must evacuate or weather the storm on land, on their own. Meier, who has served for 32 years and been married for 25, says this is part of "the Navy way of life."
"This is not the first time I've left my family due to a hurricane," he says. "My family met me in a liberty port in Guam years ago. A typhoon came in, and I and the rest of the sailors that were on board the USS Kitty Hawk at the time, we got back on board the Kitty Hawk and left our families in Guam, and they weather...
The U.S. military also evacuated the Marine Corps' recruit-training camp at Parris Island, S.C., which lies on a coastal marsh, and has begun moving fighter jets and other aircraft from the water's edge, according to The Washington Post.
After the storm passes, the Navy ships will return to Hampton Roads and begin the process of reopening the ports, which includes inspecting navigational markers, buoys and surveying the depths of the channels, Meier says.
"That's a relatively fast process for reopening the ports at least up in the Norfolk area," he says. "I would expect that that could be much longer or [a] more difficult process for places like Morehead City or Wilmington, N.C."
As for the status of those ships now, Meier says they are floating near Florida, far removed from the storm's path.
"We're seeing beautiful weather, no rain, relatively calm seas down in the Strait of Florida right now," he says. "But I am certainly concerned about the storm itself. Florence has the potential to be an absolutely devastating storm."
Ohio State redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Dre’Mont Jones was ejected for targeting with three minutes remaining in the second quarter due to a helmet-to-helmet hit on quarterback Brian Lewerke of the Buckeyes’ game against Michigan State Saturday afternoon.
The penalty negated an interception from redshirt sophomore cornerback Damon Arnette. Jones finished the game with one solo tackle.
Since he committed the penalty in the first half, Jones will miss the remainder of the game against the Spartans, but will be eligible to play the entire game next Saturday against Illinois.
Jones is the second starting defensive lineman to be ejected for targeting in as many weeks. Sophomore defensive end Nick Bosa was flagged for roughing the passer and ejected for targeting from last week’s game against Iowa in the second quarter.
Who makes these rules? So in the first half you can go helmet to helmet or clobber an opponet hard and get unnecessary roughness and your punishment is you get ejected. But in the second half you have to be on your best behavior so you dont get ejected and then also have to sit out playing a game the following week? Wh...
The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, otherwise known as the Yulin Dog Festival, kicked off in southern China this week, amid a fevered pitch of demands from the international community for the city to halt the controversial event.
Critics of the festival, which this year have included celebrity condemnations from Matt Damon, Rooney Mara, and Joaquin Phoenix in a widely circulated PSA from non-profit organization Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, have said that the festival is barbaric and baseless. Proponents meanwhile have argued that the pr...
Here are five facts to know about this divisive Asian event.
The festival has only existed since 2010, though dog hot-pots became popular within Yulin in the 90’s. Consumption of dog meat has taken place in China and the rest of Asia since before written history, however. Dog meat purportedly helps alleviate heat exhaustion, which has led to popularity on summer menus.
Beyond cruelty concerns, many opponents of the festival cite serious hygienic concerns of the meat itself. In line with the belief that tortured dogs will provide better meat, conditions with which dogs are transported and slaughtered are often poor and treated with little oversight. Many of the dogs are unvaccinated, ...
3. An estimated 10,000 dogs are expected to be killed at this year’s festival.
Marc Ching, activist and founder of Animal Hope and Wellness, has reportedly rescued 1,000 dogs from slaughterhouses this week, which would amount to a 10% reduction of dogs slated for slaughter at the festival. It's estimated that 25 million dogs are eaten every year, worldwide.
4. The event technically doesn’t exist.
At least according to the Yulin government, which released a statement to Chinese newswire Xinhua in 2014 [article in Chinese] that described the festival as a local custom recognized by only a small percentage of residents.
5. Prices of dog meat dishes at the festival keep mounting – and no one is sure if that’s good or bad.
Some believe that the increasing costs at the festival is a reflection of less supply for restaurants, indicating that fewer meat vendors and slaughterhouses are willing to sell the controversial commodity. Another argument is that the press the festival has attracted has greatly increased the exposure of the event, wi...
Colchester United tumbled to a 4-1 defeat at a rain-sodden Bury this afternoon.
The U's conceded twice either side of half-time to lose at Gigg Lane, with Tom Eastman's first-ever career goal in the second half their only consolation.
Freddie Sears tested Bury goalkeeper Jonathan Bond in the opening minute with a fierce shot.
But U's keeper Ben Williams was also called into action soon after when he denied Peter Sweeney and gathered Mike Grella's weak effort, as the game developed into an open affair.
Williams also denied Steven Schumacher, before two goals in the space of three minutes just before half-time left Colchester with it all to do.
Grella stabbed home at the second attempt for Bury after Williams had initially saved Efe Sodje's header.
The U's goalkeeper made a superb save to deny Shaun Harrad, soon after.
But from Schumacher's resultant corner, Harrad hooked in after Williams had initially made a good save to prevent Odejayi from putting into his own net.
Things got even worse for the U's ten minutes after the break when Giles Coke emphatically finished, from Grella's pass.
And although Eastman pulled one back for the U's when he headed in Anthony Wordsworth's corner, Bury restored their three-goal advantage with 17 minutes to go through David Worrall, who drilled in superbly from Peter Sweeney's cross-field pass and the goal was allowed to stand, despite the U's appeals for offside.
The U's were unable to get back into the game and slumped to a heavy away defeat.
See Tuesday's Gazette for a full match report, pictures and reaction to Colchester United's defeat at Bury.
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If you ever win a McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, don’t expect the usual phone call. McKnight might toy with you before breaking the news. For composer Libby Larsen, the 2016 honoree, the foundation worked in cahoots with American Composers Forum President and CEO John Nuechterlein and famed choral conductor Dale ...
“We had just started talking when Vickie Benson from McKnight and another member of the staff barged in,” Larsen said by phone late last week. “That’s not the way Vickie Benson behaves. She said to John, ‘I have to finish making that video, and I need to do it right now,’ and they started videotaping weird things in th...
“I was moving my chair around to make room for them, and Vickie came up behind me and put a letter on the table in front of me. My first thought was to move it over so she could use it. But she said, ‘You should read it.’ So I did.
Minnesota’s top cultural prize, the Distinguished Artist Award recognizes artists who have chosen to make their lives and careers here, enriching our state with their creativity and their art. The award, which has a $50,000 purse, has been given each year since 1998. The first winner was composer Dominick Argento, who ...
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Larsen moved with her family to Minneapolis when she was 3. She attended Christ the King school (now Carondelet) in southwest Minneapolis (where she learned Gregorian chant from the nuns), then Southwest High School and the U, where she earned her B.A., Master’s degree and Ph.D. in theory ...
Prolific, accomplished, in demand and a trailblazer in a male-dominated field, Larsen has composed more than 500 major works from songs to operas, intimate chamber music to symphonies. The first female composer-in-residence with a major orchestra, she premiered her first symphony, “Water Music” (1985), with the Minneso...
Larsen remembers the moment when she knew she would be a composer.
Does she have any advice for young composers today?
What is she working on now? “I just finished a big piece for solo violin and orchestra called ‘Dancing Man Rhapsody.’ It was commissioned by four orchestras in California. And I’m working with Cantus and the Guthrie toward a production of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ which is Cantus’ take on Shakespeare’s play. We’ve been in wo...
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She would deserve this prize if only for founding the Minnesota Composer’s Forum. She and Steve Paulus so unselfishly aided their peers and created a fount of creativity that touched everyone. But she has also composed much wonderful music, and even has her imitators as a result.
Facing multiple warrants, Corey W. Paradise eludes authorities in dramatic fashion, reminiscent of a similar chase in 2014.
Authorities in York are searching for a habitual offender who eluded capture Saturday morning after police used Tasers on him – jumping out a window at a construction site and fleeing barefoot into the woods in the midst of a thunderstorm.
Corey W. Paradise, 45, was still at large Saturday night, York police said.
It’s not the first time Paradise has made the news with extraordinary efforts to elude arrest. In 2014, he led police on a long, bizarre chase when Scarborough police tried to pull him over for having a headlight out.
On Saturday, a York police officer on patrol spotted Paradise driving a car and knew he was wanted on multiple outstanding arrest warrants.
While the officer looked up the records, Paradise drove out of sight, according to a police statement. Officers found the car in the parking lot of a construction site off Long Sands Road at the York Housing Authority complex and they located Paradise inside a building under construction.
There, Paradise resisted the officers and tried to flee, and the officers used their Tasers on him. But Paradise was able to jump out a window and fled into a heavily wooded area behind the plaza, police said.
Late Saturday, police said they believed Paradise was picked up in York and may have been sighted in the Sanford area. Police asked anyone who spots Paradise to call them at 363-4444 and not to approach him.
In the 2014 chase, Paradise, then of Gorham, pretended to be pulling over when the officer turned on his lights. But Paradise instead rolled slowly through the Cabela’s plaza parking lot, onto the Maine Turnpike entrance ramp – threw a U-turn, then another – went through the tollbooth without stopping and headed north,...
He got off the turnpike in Portland then led police on an alternately slow- and high-speed chase through multiple neighborhoods before abandoning the car. Police found him hiding under the porch of a house and he scuffled with officers during the arrest – leading to more charges.
Paradise is currently wanted on multiple arrest warrants, including failure to submit to arrest, reckless conduct, unlawful possession of scheduled drugs, operating a motor vehicle after habitual offender revocation, violating conditions of release, and failure to provide correct name or address.
Section 66A of cyber law is said to be crux of problem as it has been (mis)used to trigger off communal violence.
Earlier this month, the city of Pune and adjoining areas in the western Indian state of Maharashtra were caught up in a wave of communal violence, which led to a large-scale vandalism and a spate of hate crimes, which included a Muslim gentleman being clobbered to death by an irate mob.
It all started with a malicious Facebook post. Photographs of venerated figures - two Hindu kings of medieval India, and a recently departed demagogue of a Hindu right-wing political party, were morphed to show them in an apparently "derogatory" manner, and widely circulated over social media. As if on cue, the moment ...
This wasn't the first time social media was used as a megaphone for communal and religious hate speech with a clear agenda of provoking a violent backlash.
Last year, Muzaffarnagar in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh was wracked by communal riots on a scale not witnessed since the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 in which more than 1,000 Muslims were killed.
The uploading and dissemination of the video of lynching by a legislator of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) added fuel to the fire. It later emerged that the video was actually from Pakistan, and passed off as Indian.
Even before that, in 2012, fake and morphed videos of Tibetans were circulated under the claim that they depicted the persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, leading to a mass exodus of people and even small riots in certain metropolitan cities.
This spate of violence and the subsequent treatment of social media as a scapegoat and even culprit is redolent of Kenya in 2007 or how the radio was held culpable for its role in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Or how Facebook is being blamed for spreading hate speech in Myanmar.
This spate of violence and the subsequent treatment of social media as a scapegoat and even culprit is redolent of Kenya in 2007 or how the radio was held culpable for its role in the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
Politicians were quick to jump on to the 'monitor and ban' bandwagon, the police in Mumbai and the capital, New Delhi, set up cyber-crime laboratories geared to constantly watch out for malicious and objectionable social media posts.
If this wasn't enough, self-styled 'concerned citizens' have set up online vigilante groups, to maintain a constant vigil over what they consider "objectionable" or "derogatory" online posts and reporting them to the police.
(b) known to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will.
The italicised terms defy any rational definition, and no wonder have been used to bully and instill fear - someone arrested for he dared criticise the chief minister of a state and the prime minister , the police declaring that even those who "Like" Facebook posts which could be deemed "offensive" shall be booked.

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